Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
In 2013, the NOAA Climate Program Office announced a new director, and continued to make advances in climate observation, research, modeling, and decision support activities for society.
A look back at 2013: NOAA CPO contributes to new advances in climate science Read More »
NOAA’s annual Arctic Report Card, introduced in 2006 by the NOAA Climate Program Office, found that cooler temperatures in the summer of 2013 across the central Arctic Ocean, Greenland and northern Canada moderated the record sea ice loss and extensive melting that the surface of the Greenland ice sheet experienced last year.
Long-term warming and environmental change trends persist in the Arctic in 2013 Read More »
Representatives from NOAA’s Climate Program Office attended the Third International Conference on Climate Services (ICCS-3), held on December 4-6, 2013 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. This conference provided an opportunity for experts around the world to come together and share their experiences, while discussing challenges and opportunities in the transition from research and pilot activities to sustained climate services.
NOAA partnerships highlighted at the International Conference on Climate Services Read More »
The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Prediction, and Projections program hosted a webinar on the topic of high-resolution modeling and information on Tuesday, December 17. Producing climate simulations at fine-scale requires significant advances in the understanding of climate processes and model capabilities. The demand for fine-scale information, which drives this research thrust, is great and growing. Many aspects of the applied climate sciences require high-resolution information for accurate planning. Research to develop such information strives to achieve both higher resolution and also more accurate models.
The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Prediction, and Projections program hosted a webinar jointly with the Climate and Societal Interactions Division on the research and information supporting drought preparedness, Friday, November 22, 2013. The webinar will explore drought research, how that research supports activities and capabilities in the user/decision maker communities, and how drought impacts and risks feed back into research directions.
Amanda McCarty of the Climate Program Office is participating in the United National Climate Change Conference taking place in Warsaw, Poland from Nov. 11 – 23 as part of the delegation from NOAA and the United States.
NOAA delegation attends UN Climate Change Conference Read More »
The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Prediction, and Projections program hosted a webinar on the National Climate Predictions and Projections (NCPP) platform on Friday, November 15, 2013. The webinar described NCPP’s recent progress and achievements and discussed future directions.
MAPP Webinar Series: The National Climate Predictions and Projections platform Read More »
The National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring System workshop, led by the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), was held on Nov. 13-14 in Kansas City, MO.
NIDIS leads monitoring workshop Read More »
Dr. Roger Pulwarty, a scientist at NOAA’s Climate Program Office and director of the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) program is one of the authors on a new article published in Science titled “Hell and high water: Practice-relevant climate adaption science.”
CPO’s Pulwarty is author on Science-published article Read More »
New research partially funded by NOAA’s Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) program may enable longer-term forecasts of U.S. heat waves. Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research have fingerprinted a distinctive atmospheric wave pattern high above the Northern Hemisphere that can foreshadow the emergence of summertime heat waves in the United States more than two weeks in advance.
NOAA-funded research could help early prediction of extreme heat waves Read More »